Gus Casely-Hayford appointed as first director of V&A East
British historian, curator and broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford has been appointed the inaugural director of V&A East, the South Kensington museum's east London outpost. More
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Beaded Mardi Gras costumes by Big Chief Demond Melancon on show at V&A
Beaded costumes designed for the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans by artist and educator Big Chief Demond Melancon were on show at London's V&A museum for London Design Festival. More
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V&A promotes degrowth with a pavilion that's nothing but empty space
The Non-Pavilion is a London Design Festival installation that barely exists, to make a statement that the world needs to produce less. More
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Sam Jacob looks to a future when ocean plastic outnumbers fish
Sam Jacob has reimagined a famous Eames textile for his London Design Festival installation Sea Things, to highlight the threat ocean plastic poses to marine life. More
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Kengo Kuma combines bamboo with carbon fibre to create "material for the future"
Bamboo and carbon fibre can be used together to build earthquake-proof architecture, says Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, whose Bamboo Ring is installed at the V&A for London Design Festival. More
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Designers create personal wooden furniture for leaders of London's creative institutions
Creative leaders of London's cultural institutions have collaborated with 10 designers to create an object of personal relevance to them from American red oak wood for London Design Festival. More
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V&A adds physical and digital objects from Extinction Rebellion group to its collection
London's V&A museum has acquired a series of objects from Extinction Rebellion, including flags, pamphlets and digital files, that show how the global activist group has used design to galvanise public opinion. More
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Paper Castles exhibition dangles architecture's future over its past
Weird and wonderful designs by architects including Zaha Hadid Architects, Madelon Vriesendorp and Sarah Wigglesworth have been installed over the more traditional models of the V&A's architecture gallery, in an exhibition for the London Festival of Architecture. More
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"We all have a stake in the future of food" say curators of V&A's Bigger than the Plate exhibition
London's V&A shows what the future of food could look like in its latest exhibition Food: Bigger than the Plate, which takes visitors through a full food cycle from compost to plate. More
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Careers guide: Natalie Kane explains how she became curator of digital design at the V&A
Natalie Kane got her first taste of culture working as a gallery assistant in Brighton, but is now a curator at the V&A museum. She explains what she learnt along the way for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. More
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Designs revealed for V&A East buildings by O'Donnell + Tuomey and Diller Scofidio + Renfro
London's V&A has released details of its plans for V&A East, a new outpost at the Olympic Park featuring a five-storey museum designed by O'Donnell + Tuomey and a research centre created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. More
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David Kohn designs V&A Photography Centre to hold museum's delicate collection
David Kohn Architects has refurbished a series of galleries in London's V&A to create a new photography centre that houses the museum's sensitive collection. More
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V&A curator Marie Foulston describes five pioneering designs in Videogames exhibition
A new exhibition at the V&A in London explores the designs of video games of the past decade. In a Dezeen exclusive, curator Marie Foulston picks out five of the most groundbreaking examples and reveals the stories behind them. More
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Arvo Pärt's music celebrated in multi-sensory installation at V&A
A multi-sensory exhibition at the V&A's Norfolk House Music Room, created as part of this month's London Design Festival, aims to bring the work Estonian composer Arvo Pärt to life through his own words. More
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V&A Dundee is "a conversation between nature and artefact" says Kengo Kuma
In this exclusive video interview, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma reflects on the relationship between his V&A Dundee museum building and the sea. More
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Michael Anastassiades installs drinking fountain that "lights up your whole face" at the V&A
London-based designer Michael Anastassiades looked to classical architecture when creating this reflective bronze drinking fountain, which is installed in the V&A's garden courtyard for London Design Festival. More
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Waugh Thistleton installs modular three-storey maze in V&A's Sackler Courtyard
A nine-metre-high maze built from cross-laminated timber is on show at the V&A during London Design Festival, to demonstrate the potential of carbon-neutral buildings. More
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V&A Dundee shows "new way of designing big buildings" that will be used for Tokyo stadium, says Kengo Kuma
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma says the new engineering techniques developed to meet the technical challenges of the V&A Dundee are being used to build his Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium. More
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Kengo Kuma's V&A Dundee photographed at sunrise and sundown by Ste Murray
This slideshow of photographs offers a detailed look around the Kengo Kuma-designed V&A Dundee, Scotland's first design museum, which opens this week. More
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V&A's acquisition of Dali Lips sofa an "absolute triumph"
London's V&A ended months of speculation about the fate of one of Salvador Dalí's rare Mae West Lips sofas after purchasing it for its permanent collection. More
